Fish Reports

Spooner has been fishing well bank anglers report success in areas clear of weeds. Try getting out into the middle of the lake for more action. Castmasters and Blue Foxes have worked well. Some power bait action has worked in florescent green and rainbow. The regulations were changed for Spooner in 2006 from a zero fish limit to a five fish limit any legal method, which

Fort Churchill ponds have been fishing well for catfish and Bass. Rubber baits such as root beer colored lizards have been working for the bass.

Big Springs Reservoir is filling, looks good for the future.

Jim French reports Bilk Creek reservoir has been good for planted rainbow.

Boat anglers are generally finding fish 25 feet below the surface and are doing well locating fish and fishing frog or trout colored torpedoes

Gene St. Denis: Fishing has been good early in the mornings. I've been fishing 50-200 feet deep at Ski Run Shelf. Trolling with silver Herring Dodger flasher blades and minnows. Bouncing off the bottom in a serpentine pattern. We caught browns 5-7 pounds and Mackinaw 7-14 pounds.

Andy at The Gilly Sporting Goods Store: Flows are low. Fishing is OK. There is a Caddis and Mosquito hatch late in the afternoon. Fish behind the riffles.

Todd Sodaro and Chad Machado of the Carson River Resort (877-694-2229): Fishing last weekend was the best I've ever seen here. Joshua Hammitt, age 6, of Galt, Calif. caught a 4-pounder and a 3.2 pounder. His sister, Victoria, age 8, caught a 4.9 pounder. Their fish were caught on nightcrawlers on May 27. Sumer Boling of Rancho Cordova caught a 3.8, a 3.5, a 3.5

Gene St. Denis of South Lake Tahoe: My son, Eric, 12 years old, and his mom (Barbara) fished in the Hope Valley. Eric caught three planters, and one of them was 5 pounds. ?Į

Dave Kirby: The river had a plant of 1,000 pounds of rainbows on Wednesday by Alpine County. There were lots of people at every hole where they planted. Those holes are probably fished out by now.

Renie Busey of Douglas caught two 3.2 pound rainbows over the weekend.

Chuck and Linda Fields at the Topaz Lake Marina (775-266-3550): Last weekend was the less amount of people that I've seen in my 15 years out here. Not that many fishermen, water skiers and jet skis. I think it is probably due to a combination of high gas prices and the Topaz Lodge being closed. The trollers (Needlefish lures) and still fishermen (nightcrawlers) did good

Missy at Burke's Market at Silver Springs (775-577-2750): I'm estimating that there were 20,000 people. There were huge crowds everywhere. Lots of people were fishing and the fishing was awesome, especially on Monday. Lots of Wipers. There was a Channel Catfish over 30 inches long and a Largemouth Bass that was 2.5 pounds.

Dennis Dunn, Mark and Scott at the Wild Horse Resort (775) 758-6472: Fishing was good over the holiday. Lots of perch. They were catching rainbows from shore and boats. Catfish has been good if you want to stay up until 2 a.m.

Largemouth bass, crappie and rainbow trout. Anglers were catching them all over the holiday weekend. Crappie were hitting a small Gitzit fished about two feet below a pencil bobber. Bass were hitting just about anything anglers were opted to throw ??? spinners, lures and plastics. In the early morning the bass were being caught along the southern shoreline, but as the temperatures warmed up the

Anglers are having some success for striped bass, but the action has yet to really pick up. Those who are catching fish have used a variety of techniques from trolling to still-fishing and casting lures. A few channel cats have also shown up. They seem to favor chicken livers and anchovies. Largemouth bass have been active in the lower end of the lake near Katherine

Heavy boating traffic associated with the holiday weekend kept many anglers at home or off the water. Those who went out picked up a few stripers, mostly on live shad. Tim Myers, president of the Nevada BASS Federation, said fishing for both largemouth and smallmouth bass has been very good in recent weeks. Much of the action has been coming in the bays and coves